nitro why the ro in the options? does it apply to hdc or to /dev/hda2?

Boot up with that kernel using the append line, and then cat /proc/cmdline. It should show you want paramters were passed to the kerenl. On my box

Code:

$ cat /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/hda2 ro hdc=ide-scsi

And the 'ro' applies to the root filesystem, which in my case is /dev/hda2. I don't want my fs to get destroyed if my kernel chokes on boot. The filesystem will later get remounted read/write by the boot scripts._________________- Kyle Manna

that is with a new kernel and the grub line changed to read similar to yours.

partial success!! I am buring an an ISO image as we speak, using cdrecord. cdbakeoven choked and I still get all kinds of errors during boot up, I'm trying to find where the logs are on my new system_________________Take Care,

well some thing sthat have helped,
i changed the grub line--this really needs to be in the documentaion somewhere.
in my etc /fstab i changed the line dealing with my cdrw to
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom0 iso9660 auto,users,ro
i had set it to rw because I thought I wouldn't be able to write to it.

in my etc /fstab i changed the line dealing with my cdrw to
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom0 iso9660 auto,users,ro
i had set it to rw because I thought I wouldn't be able to write to it.

That doesn't matter, when you burn a cd, you don't write to the filesystem/mout. You write to the device directly. I bet when you mount it, mount spits some error at you about mounting in read-only mode right?_________________- Kyle Manna